Eco-Imagination towards a Sustainable Future: Perspectives from Philosophies in Islam 3031676580, 9783031676581

Table of contents :
Preface
References
Acknowledgements
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
References
Part I: Eco-Imagination in Islamic Philosophies and Sufism
Chapter 2: Divine Ownership and Resourcefulness as the Basic View of Islamic Eco-imagination
1 Cosmological View in the History of Islamic Thought
2 The Consequences of Secular Imagination About Nature
3 Divine Lordship as the Central View of Islamic Teachings on Eco-imagination
4 Conclusion
References
Chapter 3: Eco-imagination and Sufi Phenomenology
1 Man and Nature as a Level of the Hierarchy of Creation
2 The Subjective World of Man and Opportunities for Consciousness
3 Spirit, Superconsciousness, and Eco-imagination
4 Logos—The Final Level of Cognition
5 Conclusion
References
Chapter 4: Existential Boredom and Imaginative Transcendence: Phenomenological Confluence Between Ibn ‘Arabī and Evagrius of Pontus
1 Introduction
2 Boredom According to Ibn ʿArabī
3 Boredom According to Evagrius
4 A Phenomenology of Boredom
5 Becoming Disillusioned with This World
6 The Uncanny Existential Feeling of Mystical Insight
References
Chapter 5: The Tree as an Absolute Phenomenological Symbol in Ibn ‘Arabī’s Paradigm
1 Introduction
2 Ibn ‘Arabī’s View of Tree as a Model of Creation
3 The Occidental Symbol of the Perfect Human (the Cross) Compared with the Islamic One (the Tree): Alif as the Connection Between the Two
Appendix
References
Part II: Towards and Beyond Mulla Sadra: Current Debates on Eco-imagination
Chapter 6: Aspects of Mulla Sadra’s Interpretation of Platonic Ideas
1 Introduction
2 Aspects of Mulla Sadra’s Philosophical Thought
3 Virtues of Platonic Ideas
4 The Place of Platonic Ideas in Mulla Sadra’s Philosophy
4.1 Definitions of Platonic Ideas in Mulla Sadra’s Thought
4.2 Criticizing Former Muslim Philosophers’ Thought
4.3 Ontological Approach to Ideas
4.3.1 Applying the Prevalence Possibility Rule
4.4 Epistemological Approach to Ideas
4.5 Religious Approach to Platonic Ideas
4.6 Mystical Approach to Ideas
5 Conclusion
References
Chapter 7: The Problem of “Being” in Sufism
1 Being or Epistemology
2 Existence and Being
3 One–Many. Self-revelation–Exteriorization
4 Existence in Islamic Sufism
5 Sophist: Unity and Being. Multiplicity and Nothing
6 Muhyiddin Ibn al-‘Arabî’s “One Without Being One”
7 Dualism–Monism and Nondualism
8 Quiddity–Mahiyet or Essence. Ibn Sina (Avicenna)–Mulla Sadra
References
Part III: Islamic Eco-imagination in Mystics, Literature and Poetry
Chapter 8: Recycled Imaginations, Re*source, and the One According to Ikhwan Al-Safa
1 Introduction
2 The One
3 The Ecological Sustainability of Shakespeare’s Imagination
References
Chapter 9: Review of the Contemporary Mystical Debate on Simorgh’s Symbiotics
1 Introduction
2 Analysis of the Discussions
References
Chapter 10: A Study of Yeats’s Byzatium Poems
1 Prelusion
2 Sailing to Byzantium
3 “Byzantium”
4 A Philosophical Coda
References
Part IV: From Eco-imagination to Sustainable Future
Chapter 11: The Imaginatively Constituted I-Center and Fana (Annulment of Egoic-I) for a Sustainable Future in the Islamic Philosophy of Bulleh Shah
1 Phenomenological Constitution of the I-center
2 Philosophical Sufism and Islam
3 Imaginative-Spiritual Progress in a Sufi Experience
4 Egoic-I in the Islamic Sufi Philosophy of Bulleh Shah
5 The Idea of Creation from an Islamic Perspective
6 Conclusion
References
Chapter 12: Eco-imagination Beyond the Verticalization of Life
1 Axial Ages
2 The Hierarchization of Life: Aristotle
3 Ma’at Philosophy in Ancient Egypt
4 Pythagorean Ikhwan as-Safa
5 Towards an Eco-visionary Symbiosis
6 Symbiosis of Life in a New Enlightenment
References
Index